PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS (BOIS, J.P.J. DU, ed.),
Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome vingt-deuxième: Continuation des voyages, des découvertes et des établissemens dans l'Amérique Septentrionale. (Quarto ed.).
Amsterdam, Van Harrevelt & Changuion, 1777. Nouvelle édition. 4to. (VIII)+527+(1) pp. Complete with 11 maps (incl. 8 fold.) & 7 plts. (all engr.). Hardcover. Late 19th-century half calf with 2 gilt-lettered title labels on spine, marbled boards & endpapers. (Light foxing/browning to title & few final leaves). VG.
¶ Incl. the explorations to find a passage to the East Indies by West or by East by the Cabots, Frobisher (3 voyages), John Davis (3 voyages), the Dutch (Barentz & Heemskerk, 2 voyages), Henry Hudson (4 voyages), and many other English, Spanish, Danish and Russians (Baffin, Munk, Beerings, etc.); descriptions of North American Indians, California, Arctic regions (Hudson Bay & Spitsbergen); voyages to Laponia by Regnard, Maupertuis and Outhier. Maps of the Arctic Ocean (incl. Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia & Baltics), Nova Zembla (2x), Spitsbergen, Arctic Ocean between Asia & America (2x), Hudson Bay, California, Gulf of Bothnia and surrounding lands (3x). - Sabin 65404: Mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions, especially in the later volumes. The maps and plates were finely engraved by J. van der Schley.
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